Links? I had dozens of them. This would bring dozens and dozens, perhaps even hundreds of new readers here. The blogs I linked to would throw plaques and awards at my feet and write such high praises as to make Jenny blush.  Mental Poo would write about me and not his anal meetup with celery.

3:20 a.m. Sofi, the four pounder began to whine in her crate, which means she missed her 9 o’clock pee. Since the time change, ( and I think somewhat related, the change of life) we are nicely tucked in by 8:30. Not sleeping, but watching the ninth episode of some Law and Order CSI/NCIS Miami program

Sometimes I get up in the middle of the dark, sometimes Nancy gets up. Now that I have hoses at both ends of my body (CPAP blowing in one end and Ice Pack freezing the other) Nancy got up. This bit would have you grasping your sides to keep from busting a gut with laughter as I recalled the time I got the two hoses switched and ended up with massive brain freeze and a knee that Balloon Boy would have fit into.

The rest of the post was jocularity about Derby being uncrated and joining us in bed, which meant Sedona did too. The fact that we are also sleeping with remotes would bring tears to your eyes. Especially when I wrote about the part where Sedona turned on the television and was flipping through channels because she had her elbow on a remote.

I knew you would get tickled when Nancy returned to bed and I asked if she had been shopping. As Gretchen wrote someplace other than her blog.

There are many things which doing online in the dead of night can never lead to anything good (strike that: anything *morally* good), but shopping for drop-dead gorgeous boots on Zappos has got to be chief among them.

Nancy doesn’t usually shop Zappos in the midst of the wee hours – usually it’s Ravelry.

This made me wonder how dogs decide how much volume and frequency of whining is needed at 3:20 a.m. Nooter would be my source. I had the perfect answer. A combination of science and parody that would make Dick Cheney chortle.

OMG, it was just so ROTFLMAO funny.

But after taking Hydrocodone to sleep last night, and not taking any notes, you get this instead.

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And you have wondered the same thing when you are sharing the road with the behemoths of the roadways…
Why aren’t over-the-road trucks more aerodynamic?

Some truck makers and after-market dealers have tried to make the truck more aerodynamic with body panels that knife through the air or swoop it up over the trailer.

But the trailer is the drag, literally!

Just look at all that open space under the bed of the truck to capture the air, causing the truck to work harder to drag the wheels along. Tool boxes and air tanks and fuel tanks are never aerodynamically.

I know the trailers are swapped around and tugged by different trucks, so a driver never knows what he will be hooked up to, but since trailers are made only by a couple manufacturers, why haven’t they invested in some R & D to make units more efficient?

It can’t be that tough to design a trailer that won’t need a trucker to invest in a new hauler to enjoy better efficiency.

Here’s simple and highly effective way to reduce trailer drag by 7.5%. It’s called the Boattail and was tested in Europe.

The fuel savings, which also means a cut in emissions, were realized by the boat tail dramatically reducing the drag caused by the lower-pressure effect that occurs in the wake of a vehicle.

This will significantly reduce my opportunity to bump-draft the trucks on the interstate, so their 7.5% fuel savings will probably be reflected as a 7.5% cost increase to me.

I’ll make the sacrifice.

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AP – Retail gasoline prices chugged higher Friday to a new peak for the year, forcing consumers to dig deeper into already-thin wallets to pay for fuel.
OSHA fines BP a record $87M for Texas refinery fix (AP)
from Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories

OSHA fines BP a record $87M for Texas refinery fix (AP)

AP – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday imposed a record $87 million fine against oil giant BP PLC for failing to correct safety hazards after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers at its Texas City refinery.

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Cheney told FBI he didn’t know about leaker

Then-vice president Dick Cheney told the FBI that he had no idea who leaked the CIA identity of Valerie Plame to the news media.

Dennis Hopper has Prostate Cancer

And he’s focusing on recovery. Screen legend Dennis Hopper is facing an uphill battle — the 73 year-old actor has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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A-Rod’s clutch hit in 9th puts Yanks on brink of Series title

Alex Rodriguez delivered the biggest hit of his life, a go-ahead, two-out double in the ninth inning off Brad Lidge and the New York Yankees took advantage of Johnny Damon’s alert dash to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 on Sunday night for a 3-1 lead in the World Series.

Philly paper gets ahead of itself on World Series

A Philadelphia newspaper has apologized to readers for mistakenly running an ad congratulating the Philadelphia Phillies on winning back-to-back World Series titles. The Yankees held a commanding 3-1 lead in the championship as of Monday, the day the ad was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The three-quarter-page Macy’s ad is on the back of the front section and features a T-shirt with the…

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Limbaugh calls Obama ‘immature, inexperienced’ (AP)

AP – From his home and on a friendly network, Rush Limbaugh lobbed pot shots across the airwaves Sunday at President Barack Obama — “immature, inexperienced, in over his head,” offering the country “radical leadership” and laying siege to the economy.

Thinking negatively can boost your memory, study finds

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

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And apparently, Rush Limbaugh is still fat.

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There are other tips that folks in the big city should expect but here in Smallburg happen so infrequently, that I’ll give them a pass.

But even Smallburg restaurants should train, train, train staff:

• Greet both people when entering the restaurant, not just the woman. Sure, she’s the boss, but give the support staff a moment in the sun too.
• Servers waiting for customers should make an attempt to look as if they are happy, not like the SS outside Dachau.
• Servers waiting for customers should not be flirting and cracking jokes with other servers. Servers having a great time until a customer walks up is kinda bassackwards.
• Everytime you pass the table is not an invitation to blurt something our direction. Use your eyes before your mouth.

And of course, can’t be a post about eating at a restaurant without my little rant about music/televisions blaring. Unless you are a sports bar where televisions are mandatory, or a restaurant with live music, just skip it mmmmmkay? Like the restaurant in downtown Boston with an Irish theme playing country/western because the bartender liked it! (#32)

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